Thicket: Shades from the Eastern Cape

Name: Thicket: Shades from the Eastern Cape
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Thicket pays tribute to the landscapes and wildlife of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Written after a heart attack and during the isolation of the COVID-19 lockdown, the collection explores mortality, memory and human responsibility towards the natural world.

Harry Owen sets the region’s wild beauty against ecological destruction, human intrusion and social inequality. Through close encounters with animals, plants and landscapes, he examines our intimacy with a vulnerable world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Harry Owen is an English-born poet and former English teacher who moved to South Africa in 2008. Cheshire’s first official Poet Laureate, he founded the Reddits Poetry gatherings in Makhanda. He earned a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Pretoria in 2023. His work reflects a longstanding commitment to conservation and ecopoetry.

Thicket is ’n huldeblyk aan die Oos-Kaap se landskappe en natuurlewe. Geskryf ná ’n hartaanval en tydens die afsondering van die COVID-19-inperking, verken die bundel sterflikheid, herinnering en die mens se verantwoordelikheid teenoor die natuur.

Harry Owen plaas die streek se wilde skoonheid teenoor ekologiese verwoesting, menslike indringing en sosiale ongelykheid. In noukeurige waarnemings van diere, plante en landskappe ondersoek hy ons verbondenheid aan ’n kwesbare wêreld.

OOR DIE SKRYWER
Harry Owen is ’n Engelsgebore digter en voormalige Engels-onderwyser wat in 2008 na Suid-Afrika verhuis het. Hy was Cheshire se eerste amptelike Poet Laureate en het die Reddits Poetry-byeenkomste in Makhanda gestig. In 2023 het hy ’n PhD in Kreatiewe Skryfkuns aan die Universiteit van Pretoria verwerf. Sy werk getuig van ’n diep betrokkenheid by natuurbewaring en ekopoësie.

Thicket: Shades from the Eastern Cape

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